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The Pro Football Hall of Fame would not allow Junior Seauâs daughter to give a speech at his induction ceremony. Recorded in her hotel room in Canton, Ohio, hereâs what Sydney would have said.
The Russian capital is looking ever more like an elegant European capital, but its political life is marching steadily in the opposite direction.
Both Democrats from Vermont caught a populist wave, but there are crucial differences between the men and between their eras.
Just a few years after the recession caused widespread layoffs for teachers, school districts now find themselves with numerous job vacancies and few qualified candidates to choose from.
Alternative local currencies, some depicting pop stars instead of politicians, may be the last hurrah for cash.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 2015, covering August 9, 2015.
Future
Taylor Swift
Tyrese
Tame Impala
Alan Jackson
2015Frank Gifford, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (born 1930)[â ]
Francis Newton Gifford was an American professional football player, actor, and television sports commentator. After a 12-year playing career as a halfback, flanker and safety for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL), he was a play-by-play announcer and commentator for 27 years on ABC's Monday Night Football.
2015John Henry Holland, American computer scientist and academic (born 1929)[â ]
John Henry Holland was an American scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. He was a pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms.
2015Walter NahĂșn LĂłpez, Honduran footballer (born 1977)[â ]
Walter NahĂșn LĂłpez CĂĄrdenas was a Honduran football player.
2015David Nobbs, English author and screenwriter (born 1935)[â ]
David Gordon Nobbs was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s television series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.
2015Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (born 1915)[â ]
Kayyara Kinhanna Rai was an Indian independence activist, author, poet, journalist, teacher and farmer.
2015Fikret Otyam, Turkish painter and journalist (born 1926)[â ]
Fikret Otyam was a Turkish painter and journalist.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]